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Using Elastic Load Balancers and EC2 Auto Scaling to Support AWS Workloads
Combining Elastic Load Balancers with EC2 Auto Scaling helps to manage and control your AWS workloads. This combination supports the demands put up...
10 Steps for an Effective Reserved Instances Strategy
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers three different ways to pay for EC2 Instances: On-Demand, Reserved Instances, and Spot Instances. This article wil...
AWS EC2 Instance Types Explained
Amazon Web Services’ resource offerings are constantly changing, and staying on top of their evolution can be a challenge. Elastic Cloud Compute (E...
Two New EC2 Instance Types Announced at AWS re:Invent 2018 – Monday Night Live
The announcements at re:Invent just keep on coming! Let’s look at what benefits these two new EC2 instance types offer and how these two new instan...
Three Ways to Cut Your EC2 Costs with Hands-on Labs
Moving to the cloud offers businesses many advantages over managing their own infrastructure. Cost savings is the primary benefit for companies tha...
Two Long-Awaited New Features in AWS EC2
AWS has just added two cool new (and long-awaited) features to the EC2 API. The first feature is related to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM...
5 New Amazon EC2 Services and Features from 2015
Amazon EC2 is the most popular service from Amazon Web Services and a great general AWS introduction. The team at AWS constantly improves its Amaz...
SELinux: improve the security of your EC2 servers
SELinux provides tools to more finely control the activities allowed to users, processes, and daemons to limit the potential damage from vulnerabil...
Firewalld: improving security for your AWS EC2 server
While AWS EC2 instances should be well protected by VPC security tools, you may still need to implement protection at the OS-level, and that means ...
Server Security: Applying Security Updates to Your EC2 Instance
Enhance the server security of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux EC2 instance by monitoring and applying system updates. This is the first part of our Se...
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